War you would have wanted to be in
I decided to start this since I have nothing better to do.
What war would you have liked to fight in if you were alive during that period in history?
My choice would probably be WW1. I have always had a weird fascination with it for some reason. Though it was a horrendous war I still would have like to be in it.
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I think war is best experienced from a safe distance - I wouldn't want to be in any of them.
Having lived overseas during a couple of revolutions, I can say it's not a particularly comfortable event.
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I wouldn't want to fight in any war whatsoever. If I had to it would probably be WWII, hopefully at some silent place like guarding a weapon depo in Texas or something.
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A general in the Cold War of course. It involves hardly any danger once Stalin's dead, and once the War's over you get filthy rich selling all those weapons.
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You're kidding? You'd want to sit around in a ditch somewhere, cold, hungry, and stricken with bowel diseases while being occasionally bombarded, choked to death and blinded, until being told by some inbred twit that you'll be legging it into the sights of a machine-gunner in a couple of days, by which point your nerves will have just gone into melt down, and when the time finally comes all of your chums will be cold corpses while - granted you survive - you become a changed, severely depressed, alcoholic man, unable to look your family in the eyes, wracked by nightmares and any number of mental health issues? *Gasps for air*
Me too!
Seriously, I wouldn't want to be in any war, full stop. I'd only ever join one out of necessity or - perhaps - a sense of duty. But even then I wouldn't exactly be chuffed of Stockport.
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It's a hypothetical question.
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I know, I know.
Just saying though, that doesn't negate the fact that war is something any sane person should avoid.
But alright.. I'll play along!
Gah! There are so many.. the Peninsula War would be interesting, or to just follow Genghis Khan around for a bit.
When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondsmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bound, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty. - John Ball
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If I had to fight in a war, I would probably have preferred the British colonial wars in Africa. Anyway I would view the same way as Captain Edmund Blackadder 'Even spears made us think twice, the people we'd prefer to fight were 2 feet tall and armed with dry grass' (quote might not be correct).
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A U.S. Marine in Desert Storm. Short, sweet, and to the point.
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Wouldn't that mostly consist of the airforce bombing the crap out of the enemy aided by cruiser missiles and such and then move in and destroy the little remaining opposition?
"One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment"
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I believe it was a very sharp piece of mango
I wouldn't want to be in any war. Anyone who wants to have been in a war should go ask Kafirchobee & Gawain how much they enjpyed Vietnam or Redleg how much he enjoyed Desert Storm or Faisal how much he enjoyed Yugoslavia......
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
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IIRC Kafirchobee didn't mind Vietnam so much, as it was an improvement on the Korean standoff. Maybe I'm being callous, but his account of being driven mad by the North Koreans had me LOLing.I believe it was a very sharp piece of mango
I wouldn't want to be in any war. Anyone who wants to have been in a war should go ask Kafirchobee & Gawain how much they enjpyed Vietnam or Redleg how much he enjoyed Desert Storm or Faisal how much he enjoyed Yugoslavia......
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A US Marine on Iwo Jima
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What a good question!
If I had my choice, it'd either have to be World War one, the Seven Years War or the Napoleonic Wars.
Preferably a high ranking officer who did all the planning but rarely got shot at.
As for sides:
WW1:Germany
Seven Years War: Probably France or Prussia or England
Napoleonic Wars: Definitely France.
Mostly for the purposes of seeing how the wars could have been different. But for WW1 and Napoleonic Wars, I genuinely have sympathy for Germany and France.
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Ah Napoleonic Wars I would have like to fight for Prussia. Just for planning and such not getting shot at maybe could have made a difference.
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I almost forgot! The English Civil War. I would probably have been a monarchist
American Civil War used to be my main focus of interest when I was young. Not so much anymore but I'd not mind going back in time to that. Seeing what would happen if the Confederacy won.
Quick Question: Anyone know the casualty figures of the English Civil War? Was it worse than the American Civil War?
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Considering the English Civil War was several wars, it might be an unfair comparison.
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However, those wars aren't likely to top the 600,000+ deaths in the ACW.
You may not care about war, but war cares about you!
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I don't remember where or from what but for some reason I remember reading or hearing that the English Civil War(s?) cost about 800,000 casualties.
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I guess choosing to be in a war, you'd have to pick a cause that you truly believe in and where you think additional manpower might have actually made a difference. To that end, I would have wanted to be in the British army, navy or RAF in 1940. Truly at no point in history was there so clearly a case of white hats/black hats and was it so important, yet so tenuous, that the white hats were able to hang on. If the UK had fallen, history would have turned out very, very differently. I was tempted to say Poland in 1939, but the techonolgy gap was just too great... there wasn't much more bodies fighting for the Poles could have done, except add to an even higher casualty rate.
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It's unlikely. The only figure I can find after a brief search states that between 10-15% of Britain and Ireland's population died during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Given that I don't know what the population of the Isles was at that time, I can't give a definate answer. But aye, I'd imagine the American Civil War had more casualties, though I haven't the foggiest how big the ol' margin would be.
When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondsmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bound, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty. - John Ball
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I would not have wanted to be in any war at any time.
Maybe peace would have been worst than war under german/japanese domination, so let us say word war II but this is not a positive choice.
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